RebelMint Motivation

Cue rant...

I got tired of scarcity being shoved down my throat, of twisting decentralization tech applied to digital art into “Number go up” flips and flops. Of an artist being cared for just as much as they are good for their collector’s bags. Fine if that’s your style, but most artists aren’t artists for all that shit. Instead they use patreon or onlyfans or any other web2 platform that cuts their profits with a cleaver. I’m so tired of web3’s inability to make something that’s just fucking free for creators to use as a vehicle to get support for their work.

Speaking of free, I got tired of the “Free Mint” meta – where mints weren’t free. Where platforms charged a service fee, and if the artist agreed to some conditions, then they get a cut from the “Free” sale’s proceeds. …Bunch of bullshit. So unpunk it makes me want to puke.

Also making me sick is all the censorship and seeing friends getting deplatformed because their content was deemed “wrong” or “in violation” for whatever shitty reasons. I got tired of reading TOCs and looking or legaleze allowing platform-level censorship. I got tired of artists feeling cornformity pressure – not being able to shout their message or expose their truths to the world. What a joke it’s become to be a crypto-artist catering to this ecosystem… If you think this *waves around* is the best that cryptotech can offer, then you’re a joke, too (so rude! and not sorry about it).

I got tired of the tech and services in web3 being controlled by corporations, their pumps and dumps, and the users being wrung out and hung out to dry. I got tired of being told what to buy and from whom. I got tired of seeing them gatekeeping artists, and tired of watching them profit off of the creativity and dreams of struggling artists.

I got tired of fake celebs, all the web3 wagmi BS, all the promises of better futures – for the few – for their few, for themselves, for their bags. Fuck all that!

So I wrote the RebelMint contracts and hired a React dev to build the integrated SDK.